Temps near record low, warming up

10:34 PM,
Oct. 8, 2012

Written by

Emily Lane
| elane@jackson.gannett.com

The cool weekend temperatures made for great fair weather, as brisk crowds hit the midway to help welcome fall to Mississippi. But just as strong crowds at the fair fell shy of record numbers, the temps didn't quite hit record lows.

Nonetheless, many Mississippians flipped on the heat at home this weekend for the first time this season as a cold front carrying Canadian winds swept through the state.

Monday's low for the Jackson metro area was expected to be in the low 40s, said Anna Weber, a meteorologist intern with the National Weather Service in Jackson. That was just above the record low of 35 ...